Kerala style beans stir fry with coconut, garlic and green chilly. A simple and healthy dish that can be served with rice. It's also called as "beans upperi" in the central part of Kerala. One of the side dishes for Kerala Onam Sadya 🙂
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Ingredients
- ½ kg French beans / Green beans
- ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 6 numbers shallot / small onion
- 1 pinch turmeric powder
- salt
- coconut oil / vegetable oil
Crush
- 1 ¼ cups grated coconut
- 5 numbers green chilly
- 4 numbers garlic
- 1 pinch cumin (optional)
Instructions
- Chop beans into small pieces. Cut shallots.
- Heat oil in a pan. Splutter mustard seeds and then add curry leaves. Add shallots and saute it until soft and translucent. Add turmeric powder and saute it.
- In a blender or mixi, crush garlic and green chilly well. Then add coconut and cumin. Cumin is optional. I don't add cumin usually. Crush it just to blend everything well. ** Don't grind.
- Add crushed mixture to the pan and saute for a couple of minutes. Don't let it brown.
- Then add chopped beans and enough salt. Cover and cook. Don't add water. It naturally has water in it, which releases when they are cooked.
- Stir in between. Otherwise, it can get burnt. Cook it until beans is done. Serve with rice 🙂
Notes
Coconut is the key ingredient in this recipe. Never compromise on that 🙂
I love beans prepared this way!
Try it out, Richa! It tastes great with white rice :)
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Thanks. I was searching for simple easy to cook kerala recipes.
Great to hear that you are liking it :)
Thank you .... it's really nice simple and easy...superb
Thanks a lot for trying it out, Ramya!!
Tasty Kerala style beans thoran. I overdid on the coconut, but turned out pretty well.
@Jithin_Emmanuel Thanks again for trying out my recipes and posting pics
Happy to hear that you are enjoying them 
Thanks for the recipe. I added the coconut mixture before the bean and it turned out burnt although I cooked on Sim. Are you sure coconut is not after beans?
Hi Arun, Sorry to hear that. Stir coconut mixture constantly; otherwise, there’s a good chance to get it burnt. If you plan to keep the thoran for 3-4 days in the refrigerator, it’s better to saute the coconut mix and then add the beans. But, if you are going to finish it off on the same day, you can add coconut mix after adding beans too. I hope this will work out for you.